رَّقِيقٍslaves in Arabic

Example sentences

• فَقُلْتُ لَهُ كُلُّ مَا تَرَى مِنَ أَجْرِكَ مِنَ الإِبِلِ وَالْبَقَرِ وَالْغَنَمِ وَالرَّقِيقِ

  So I said to him, "Take all that you see of your pay from the camels, the cattle, the sheep, and the slaves."

  وَالْرَّقِيقِ — and the slaves. The connector 'wa-' closes the list by adding the final category, parallel to the earlier list-joining 'wa-'. Its definite noun is a collective term for slaves and carries the same genitive ending running through the whole itemized pay.

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